Sunday, February 9, 2014

Agile Engineering - Refactoring: The Questions

Refactoring, TDD and Solutions Spikes are most known engineering practices that are fundamental for an Agile process.

Refactoring - "…is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code,
altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior." AND "Refactoring is a controlled technique for improving the
design of an existing code base." (Martin Fowler)

Question 1 - Why we need Refactoring in Agile Development?

... and for the ones that have the answer to the first question

Question 2 - It is enough to refactor in order to enable agility? What other practices could help? (other then TDD and solutions spikes)